David Miliband: my message got lost in the Miliband brothers soap opera

The former Labour leader contender and serving South Shields MP says he is
leaving UK politics because the "substance" of what he was trying
to say "got lost in the soap opera of the Miliband brothers".

12:25PM GMT 27 Mar 2013

David Miliband said he had accepted the position of president and chief executive of the International Rescue Committee in New York.

In a letter to his constituency party chairman in South Shields, he said it was "very difficult" for him to be leaving UK politics.

His move comes more than two years after he was narrowly beaten to the party leadership by his brother, Ed.

Explaining his decision to leave politics, David Miliband said that his message had "got lost in the soap opera of the Miliband brothers".